Glad to hear more people are beefing up the ANTLR task, I wrote it to do what I needed a year or so ago, since then a few people have added functionality to it that they have needed.
I'd encourage you to post your source, but only after you have read Contribute Code or Documentation Patches http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html Erik Meade http://junit.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Bogdan Mitu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 6:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ANTLR task improvements > > > Hello, > > I am new to this list, but I am using Ant for a while. Thanks for > your great > job. Working with the ANTLR task I saw that it (the ANTLR task) is somehow > limited when it tries to determine if the source grammar is > "dirty" or not: > > - It considers the output of ANTLR to be one file per grammar, > while in fact > there are 2 (or even 3): XxxParser.java, XxxParserTokenTypes.java and > possibly XxxParserTokenTypes.txt. If any of one is missing, the grammar > should be recompiled, which currently happens only for XxxParser.java. > > - An ANTLR file can contain more than one grammar (any > combination of lexer, > parser and tree parser grammars). Once again, multiple output files, and > each of them missing should trigger the recompilation of the grammar. > > - ANTLR grammars can export/import token lists through > "vocabulary files" - > XxxTokenTypes.txt. If the imported file is newer than the grammar > file, the > grammar should be recompiled to include the correct tokens in generated > code. > > The main problem lays in the method getGeneratedFile(), which returns only > one file, while in fact we need two lists of files, ones that are > results of > the grammar, and should be *older* than the grammar, and a list > of imported > files, which should be *younger* than the grammar file. > > To extract all this information, I wrote a lexer/parser (using > ANTLR and, of > course, ANT :-) Now all works fine for me, and if you are interested I can > post my sources. Unfortunately, they are not based on the latest version > from CVS, but shouldn't be difficult to merge them. Please > instruct me what > to do next. Should I try to contact the maintainers of ANTLR directly? Or > just post my sources here? > > Thanks, > Bogdan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
